Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist’s success came at a time when Germany was overrun by a failing democracy, inflation, and high unemployment. Germany and it’s people needed someone to take a stance against was happening to them and someone who could at the same time bring them together as a nation at any cost, known or unknown. Hitler preached what the masses wanted to hear. He filled Germans with dreams, all the …showed first 75 words of 820 total…

…showed last 75 words of 820 total…expectation.”8 However, in ironic fashion many Germans shared at least a portion of those visions. “The desire to belong was emense”9 and it was this support that made it possible for Hitler to exploit the resources of Europe’s second largest population and most advanced economy to pursue his ends. The result was an outburst of devastation that consumed the lives of millions and transformed the world at the expense of those who supported him.